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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, David 1818-1887 (search)
Wilson, David 1818-1887 Author; born in West Hebron, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1818; graduated at Union College in 1840; admitted to the bar and began practice in Whitehall, N. Y. Later he abandoned that profession and turned his attention to literature; settled in Albany, N. Y., in 1857. His publications include Solomon Northrup, or twelve years a slave; Life of Jane McCrea; A narrative of Nelson Lee, a captive among the Comanches, etc. He died in Albany, N. Y., June 9, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, Henry 1812- (search)
ut of the wreck we would gather hundreds of thousands of changed and converted men, the best part of the body—just at that time some of our men are so anxious to embrace somebody that has always been wrong that they start out at once in a wild hunt to clasp hands with our enemies and to save the Democratic party from absolute annihilation. To do what they want us is to disband. Well, gentlemen, I suppose there are some here to-day that belonged to the grand old Army of the Potomac. If when Lee had retreated on Richmond, and Phil Sheridan sent back to Grant that if he pushed things he would capture the army—if, instead of sending back to Sheridan, as Grant did, Push things. he had said to him, Let us disband the Army of the Potomac; don't hurt the feelings of these retreating men; let us clasp hands with them, what would have been the result? I suppose there are some of you here to-day that followed Sherman—that were with him in his terrible march from Chattanooga to Atlanta —wi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Horatio Gouverneur 1820-1899 (search)
t the battle of Bull Run, and in Horatio Gouverneur Wright. the Port Royal expedition he commanded a brigade. In February, 1862, he was in the expedition that captured Fernandina, Fla., and commanded a division in the attack on Secessionville, S. C., in June, 1862. In July he was assigned to the Department of the Ohio, and commanded the 1st Division, 6th Corps, in the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg. After General Sedgwick's death he was in command of the 6th Corps, which he led in the Richmond campaign until July, 1864, when he was sent to the defence of the national capital, and afterwards (August to December) was engaged in the Shenandoah campaign. He was wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek; was in the final military operations which ended with the surrender of Lee. He was brevetted major-general, United States army, in March, 1865; promoted brigadier-general and chief of engineers June 30, 1879; and was retired March 6, 1884. He died in Washington, D. C., July 2, 1899.